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CYRUS R. FUREY, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN H.KORNMANN, OF SAME PLACE.

ALARM MAIL-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,573, datedSeptember 27, 1898.. Application filed August 21, 1897. Serial No.649,020. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYRUS R. FUREY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Logansport, in the county of Cass and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and useful Alarm Mail-Box, of which the following is aspecifi cation.

Myinvention is animprovement in the class of drop mail-boxes which areadapted for private use and ordinarily attached to doors or door-jambsof private residences. It. is more particularly an improvement in suchas are provided with a gong or alarm attachment adapted to be operatedwhen the lid of the box is opened.

The invention is embodied in the construction, arrangement, andcombination of parts hereinafter described.

The invention is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which--Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the mechanism, taken on theline a a,.Fig. 4. Fig. 2 is taken on line a a, Fig. 4, and it differsfrom the previous figure by the lid being partly raised. Fig. 3 is avertical sectional View taken on the line b b, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is alongitudinal sectional view taken on theline c c, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is adetail view of the wheel 10. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the gong 11.

Similar letters and numbers refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

The box or casing A has a lid 3l,the said lid having a pivotalconnection to the box at E. The said box has adjacent to the top alateral extension or projection B, Fig. 4. The said extension orprojection Bis, with the exception of the top 24:, of a rectangularshape and is used as a receptacle for the gong 11 and as a sounding-box.The gong is secured in a permanent manner and free from contact with thesurrounding mechanism by being bolted to the shaft 21 at 22, which inturn is bolted to the plate 18 at 22". has a semicircular offset at 22-that is to say, a lateral curve or bend which projects into the boxextension 13, as shown. The said plate is secured to the side 0 of thebox A by the bolts 26, 3?, and 39, and the plate 18 is so located as topermit the semicircular offset and the attached gong 11 to extend or setinto the sounding-box D. That the gong The plate 18 11 and thesemicircular offset may extend into the sounding-box an opening 27 hasbeen made through the side 0 of the box A.

A wheel 10 is located on the shaft 21 at 28, and the said wheel has apivotal connection thereto. The wheel 10 is provided with projections orcatches 29, which are to move the spring 12 when the said wheel 10 isput in motion. To communicate motion to the wheel 10 or to make thespring operative, a connectionbar 14 is provided which has pivotalconnections with the wheel 10 at 30 and the lid 31 at 32. When the lid31 is raised, the connection-bar 14, acting in conjunction with saidlid, communicates motion to the wheel 10. As the wheel moves theprojections or catches 29 are brought in contact with the spring has apermanent connection to said spring,

strikes the gong 11. The strokes are repeated as often as a catch 29releases the spring, the number of strokes varying from two to three innumber.

The wheel 10 is provided with a stop-pin e, which when the said wheelmakes a return movement comes in contact'with the spring 12, and therebypreventing the crank-pin h from stopping on a dead-center or to the sidei of the center line r r. To further facilitate the operation of thesaid wheel 10, a stop 50 is provided which is bolted at 26 to the plate18. The stop 50 has the shape of an angleiron. When the lid 31 is raisedto the position where it will stand perpendicular, the connection-bar 14will come in contact with the stop 50, thereby marking the distance oftravel by thecrank-pin h.

It is evident that without the above stops the wheel 10 would beinoperative.

The projections or catches 29 of the wheel 10 have concave and convexsides. The conthe catch and passes it. The clapper 13, withextension-sprin g 52, is soldered to the spring 12 at 53.

That the spring 12 may be properly adapted to come in contact with theprojections of the Wheel 10 and strike the gong 11 this is arranged bypassing the said spring around the bolt 39 and the end 40 partly aroundbolthead 37. To prevent the spring 12 from working too far away fromsurface of the plate 18, a quadrant 41 is placed at 42, which issuitably adapted for the purpose described.

To protect the operation of the above or previously-described mechanismfrom contact with the mail deposited, a wire screen 43 is placed at 44,which not only separates the mail from the mechanism previouslydescribed, but allows a larger volume of sound to come from the gong 11,which otherwise could not be secured.

The projections or catches 29'are cast in the wheel 10.

A supplemental letter-box 47, Fig. 3, is arranged within the box A andattached to a side wall of the latter at a point near its top. This box47 is open at the top and designed and adapted for the reception ofletters or other 1 small mail-packages. It thus subserves ahighly-useful purpose, since it holds letters deposited in it at a pointwhere they are conveniently accessible from the top of the main box Aand saves the trouble of reaching to the bottom of the latter and theregroping for letters. It also occupies so small a space as to constituteno serious obstruction to use of the remainder of the chamber of box Afor i the reception of newspapers and other large mail-packages. It willbe further seen that by a the arrangement of the gong in the lateral box13 and the wheel 10 alongside and parallel to it they occupy small spaceand leave the main chamber or compartment free for reception ofmail-matter.

What I claim is 1. The improved alarm mail-box comprising the body A,having the lateral extension or sounding-box B, the gong located in suchextension, the wheel 10 arranged facing and close to said gong, andprovided with a series of curved teeth, the spring 12 having its freeend arranged for contact with the teeth and provided with a clapperadapted to strike the gong, the hinged box-lid, and a rod conn ecting itwith that side of the wheel toward which its teeth are curved, as shownand described, to operate as specified.

2. The improved alarm mail-box, comprising the body A, having a hingedlid, and the lateral extension or side chamber, the bar attached to itsside and curved laterally into such chamber, the gong attached to andsupported by said bar, a spring secured alongside the bar and projectingupward beside the Wheel, a clapper projecting from the spring intostriking proximity to said gong, a toothed wheel journaled on orextending from the gong-support, and arranged vertically adjacent to thegong, and the connecting-rod pivoted to the lid and to the side of thewheel toward which the teeth of the latter curve, as

shown and described.

CYRUS R. FUREY.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. KORNMAN, BYRON B. GORDON.

